Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-11-21

a high price. "A 1ooley Cream
er and other approved appara-
tus is used in the milk room
There is IN abundant supply OF wa
ter both i'm barn and yard The
cows fed on steamed feed and en-
silage drink very little, however.
Good cows are selected, and bred to
as good bulls as can be found with
reference to a continued improvement
in the grade of the COWS. The third
story of the big barn is for the drive
way, and hay storage. This Year it
is literally full to the ridge, as are
all the barns and sheds. The hay
is cut for cows and horses on this
floor by horse power. The horse
barn is planned for convenience and
has about dozen stalls well filed
in the winter season. The breeding
of horses is made something of a
speciality, and several blooded mares
of the Hambletonian, Morgan and
Wilkes blood are raising progeny
of fine colts. One of the Kentucky
Prince colts was sold few days ago
! for $500. and there are other colts
and animals which show well for
themselves, and have a lOng-tailed
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veniences for calves, colts and sheep
are made in the smaller barns. There
is large flock of good sheep on the
farm at present. The stock, par
TALLY enumerated above, consists of
30 cows, p steers that have BEEN
bought to be fatted during the eahy
winter, with bulls, oxen and young
cattle to exceed 100 in number there
are 16 horse kind, 75 sheep and a
large number of swine.
AS may be inferred, the forage
crop is very large. The figured ton
capacity of the hay storage is 300
tons, and it is all occupied-the barns
are stuffed full, including the floors
in the small barns. The ensilage
crop in 800 tons. The oat crop was
ID acres, the field corn three
acres, and the potato crop large
in spite of the poor year, two
acres. The amount of grass grown
on some of the fields lately under
drained and seeded is enormous on
one field of fourteen acres over sixty
large loads of hay were cut, followed
by a rOwen crop, estimated at two
tons to the acre. On this the steers
and young cattle have found sus-
tenance all the fall; another field
along side the road produced grass
that stood even high with the board
fence. These grounds are better
than the average, but there is no
part of the tillage which cannot be
put in as good condition as the
| patches mentioned.
The next most important enter
prise is the renovation of the pas
| lures, SO that the pasture forage
shall be sufficient to summer feed
the stock, which the NOW lands pro-
vide for in the winter This has
already been entered upon, quite
large patches have been reclaimed
| by blowing, manuring and phOs-
plating; and so fast as it can be
done the pastures will be plowed up,
top dressed or otherwise treated TILL
they are brought to a productive
state. Some of the fields will be
tnrned to pasturage. A large pas
ture in CRANKY has lately been sold,
and it is proposed to keep all the
stock on the place ere long.
The present year a large job is
under way on the house buildings.
The old house has been moved back
and large two-story front is going
up, with additional ell-room. The
house plan is made by Mr. Packard,
architect. Phillip Shields and other
parties from Orleans County are do
ing the work. The new structure
will be pretty, pleasant and suited
| TO fho AnU1onAc Of tho nj III
old house will be kept as near intact
as possible, and those of the family
who return from time to time to the
old homestead will find the old house,
as it was, except that it has been
turned to face in another direction.
Capt. Geo. O. Ford is the efficient man
ager of this farming enterprise, and
himself and Mrs. Ford, Gen CIRCUITS
sister, have not found many idle
moments during the last ten years
hard service. 1t looks as though
few years more would put things of
field and pasture, barn and house, in
such condition that the great work
of this farm can be done with ease,
and at such profit as to show that
scientific and practical farming does
pay in Vermont. Gen. Grout has
already demonstrated one fact, name
ly; that an ordinary Vermont farm
can be so improved and developed
as to double or treble its productive
capacity in ten years.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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